Spam Policy

[joreth]

 Yes, spammers, I have noticed you posting anonymous comments in really old posts.  Your superficial, generic, and vague "compliments" on my posts do not blind me to the fact that you also posted a URL to some unrelated website that collects credit card numbers, phishes for email addresses, and installs cookies & spyware.  I am not so easily won over by flattery that I completely lose my intelligence.  Does that tactic ever work for anyone?

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Comments

[petite-lambda.livejournal.com]

One thing I still haven't figured out are the obviously spam comments (generic compliment on an old post) but *without* the spam link. A bug in the spamming software?
Do you get these, too?

[joreth]

I do get these, and as near as I can figure out, they're probably test emails to see if their comment gets through before sending more spam with links. I have no real evidence for it though, that's just my best guess for why anyone would waste coding for non-linked comments.